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Office for National Statistics

In research, Office for National Statistics stands highest in Health Sciences (#2,010 of 16,688 worldwide), Social Sciences (#2,394 of 14,833 worldwide) and Medicine (#2,419 of 14,558 worldwide), over all time.

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World rank, 2022-now
#7,341
of 22,385 · #2,940 all time
Rank in United Kingdom
#254
of 862
Research works
1k
▲ 75% vs 2018-21
Citations
29k
28.0 per fractional work
Top-10% rate
6.3%
all institutions 10.0%
vs its own fields
1.03×
1.00× is exactly expected
Open access
67%
world 40%
International
8%
world 18%
Office for National Statistics

What is Office for National Statistics known for in research?

The fields where it stands highest, over all time, ranked among every institution above the floor in each field.

FieldWorld rankWhere that sitsTop-10% rateWorks
Health SciencesDomain #2,010 of 16,688 14.6%241
Social SciencesDomain #2,394 of 14,833 5.7%642
MedicineField #2,419 of 14,558 17.2%140
Economics, Econometrics and FinanceField #641 of 3,142 4.2%210
Economics and EconometricsSubfield #594 of 2,401 5.1%140
Social SciencesField #3,238 of 9,330 5.8%268
Physical SciencesDomain #9,847 of 17,446 5.3%125

Each strip is that field's whole ranked pool, with the notch where Office for National Statistics sits in it, in the colour of the band that rank falls in. The track under the rate is the rate itself: it carries no average mark, because the average differs by field (from about 6% in Dentistry to 21% in Economics).

Which fields of science does Office for National Statistics work in?

In 2022-now, 46% of research at Office for National Statistics is in Social Sciences, 27% in Health Sciences. Its largest fields are Social Sciences (20%), Medicine (19%), Decision Sciences (10%). It does 1.8× the world's share of Social Sciences.

Social Sciences: 65 fractional works · 46.2% of its workSocial Sciences: 29 fractional works · 20.4% of its workHealth: 12 fractional works · 8.6% of its workSociology and Political Science: 6 fractional works · 4.4% of its workDemography: 3 fractional works · 2.3% of its workPolitical Science and International Relations: 2 fractional works · 1.3% of its workTransportation: 2 fractional works · 1.3% of its workEducation: 2 fractional works · 1.2% of its workGender Studies: 1 fractional works · 0.9% of its workSmaller subfields together: 1 fractional works · 0.5% of its workDecision Sciences: 15 fractional works · 10.3% of its workManagement Science and Operations Research: 14 fractional works · 9.7% of its workStatistics, Probability and Uncertainty: 1 fractional works · 0.6% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.1% of its workEconomics, Econometrics and Finance: 9 fractional works · 6.7% of its workEconomics and Econometrics: 5 fractional works · 3.5% of its workGeneral Economics, Econometrics and Finance: 3 fractional works · 2.5% of its workFinance: 1 fractional works · 0.7% of its workPsychology: 8 fractional works · 5.5% of its workClinical Psychology: 6 fractional works · 4.4% of its workSocial Psychology: 1 fractional works · 0.6% of its workExperimental and Cognitive Psychology: 1 fractional works · 0.4% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.1% of its workBusiness, Management and Accounting: 4 fractional works · 2.9% of its workOrganizational Behavior and Human Resource Management: 1 fractional works · 1.0% of its workManagement Information Systems: 1 fractional works · 0.8% of its workStrategy and Management: 1 fractional works · 0.7% of its workMarketing: 0 fractional works · 0.4% of its workTourism, Leisure and Hospitality Management: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workArts and Humanities: 0 fractional works · 0.4% of its workHealth Sciences: 38 fractional works · 26.8% of its workMedicine: 27 fractional works · 18.8% of its workEpidemiology: 5 fractional works · 3.6% of its workInfectious Diseases: 5 fractional works · 3.6% of its workPublic Health, Environmental and Occupational Health: 3 fractional works · 2.2% of its workOncology: 2 fractional works · 1.7% of its workCritical Care and Intensive Care Medicine: 2 fractional works · 1.2% of its workRadiology, Nuclear Medicine and Imaging: 1 fractional works · 0.9% of its workNeurology: 1 fractional works · 0.6% of its workPediatrics, Perinatology and Child Health: 1 fractional works · 0.6% of its workPulmonary and Respiratory Medicine: 1 fractional works · 0.5% of its workSurgery: 1 fractional works · 0.5% of its workPhysiology: 1 fractional works · 0.5% of its workOrthopedics and Sports Medicine: 1 fractional works · 0.5% of its workCardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine: 1 fractional works · 0.4% of its workEndocrinology, Diabetes and Metabolism: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workEmergency Medicine: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workReproductive Medicine: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 1 fractional works · 0.9% of its workHealth Professions: 11 fractional works · 7.9% of its workGeneral Health Professions: 9 fractional works · 6.6% of its workHealth Information Management: 1 fractional works · 1.0% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workNursing: 0 fractional works · 0.1% of its workPhysical Sciences: 34 fractional works · 24.4% of its workComputer Science: 12 fractional works · 8.8% of its workArtificial Intelligence: 5 fractional works · 3.5% of its workInformation Systems: 3 fractional works · 2.1% of its workSoftware: 2 fractional works · 1.4% of its workComputer Vision and Pattern Recognition: 1 fractional works · 1.0% of its workComputer Networks and Communications: 1 fractional works · 0.6% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.1% of its workEnvironmental Science: 11 fractional works · 7.5% of its workHealth, Toxicology and Mutagenesis: 8 fractional works · 5.3% of its workGlobal and Planetary Change: 1 fractional works · 1.0% of its workPollution: 1 fractional works · 0.7% of its workManagement, Monitoring, Policy and Law: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.1% of its workMathematics: 9 fractional works · 6.1% of its workStatistics and Probability: 6 fractional works · 4.4% of its workModeling and Simulation: 2 fractional works · 1.7% of its workEngineering: 1 fractional works · 0.8% of its workBuilding and Construction: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workBiomedical Engineering: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workEarth and Planetary Sciences: 1 fractional works · 0.5% of its workChemistry: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workPhysical and Theoretical Chemistry: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workPhysics and Astronomy: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workStatistical and Nonlinear Physics: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workEnergy: 0 fractional works · 0.1% of its workLife Sciences: 4 fractional works · 2.6% of its workAgricultural and Biological Sciences: 2 fractional works · 1.3% of its workGeneral Agricultural and Biological Sciences: 1 fractional works · 0.8% of its workInsect Science: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workBiochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology: 1 fractional works · 0.8% of its workGenetics: 1 fractional works · 0.5% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workImmunology and Microbiology: 1 fractional works · 0.4% of its workImmunology: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.1% of its workPharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics: 0 fractional works · 0.0% of its workALL ITS WORKOffice forNational…141fractional works, 2022-now
Life Sciences3%Physical Sciences24%Health Sciences27%Social Sciences46%

Each ring splits the one inside it: the four domains of science, their fields, their subfields. Size is fractional works in 2022-now. Every slice is a page; the interactive view zooms down to single topics and colours each by how much more of it this institution does than the world.

Its 4 domains and 22 fields, with their numbers
    1. Social Sciences2920.4%
    2. Decision Sciences1510.3%
    3. Economics, Econometrics and Finance96.7%
    4. Psychology85.5%
    5. Business, Management and Accounting42.9%
    6. Arts and Humanities00.4%
    1. Medicine2718.8%
    2. Health Professions117.9%
    3. Nursing00.1%
    1. Computer Science128.8%
    2. Environmental Science117.5%
    3. Mathematics96.1%
    4. Engineering10.8%
    5. Earth and Planetary Sciences10.5%
    6. Chemistry00.2%
    7. Physics and Astronomy00.2%
    8. Energy00.1%
    1. Agricultural and Biological Sciences21.3%
    2. Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology10.8%
    3. Immunology and Microbiology10.4%
    4. Pharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics00.0%
    5. Neuroscience00.0%
All of science, and how each field's share has moved since 1950: the Science domain explorer

Field profile

Location quotient across every field it publishes in: outside the ring is more than an institution of this size would be expected to publish, inside it is less.

Agricultural and Biological Sciences: 0.28× its world share, 2 worksAgricultural and Bio…Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology: 0.15× its world share, 1 worksBiochemistry, Geneti…Immunology and Microbiology: 0.41× its world share, 1 worksImmunology and Micro…Neuroscience: 0.01× its world share, 0 worksNeurosciencePharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics: 0.11× its world share, 0 worksPharmacology, Toxico…Chemistry: 0.15× its world share, 0 worksChemistryComputer Science: 1.13× its world share, 12 worksComputer ScienceEarth and Planetary Sciences: 0.30× its world share, 1 worksEarth and Planetary …Energy: 0.15× its world share, 0 worksEnergyEngineering: 0.06× its world share, 1 worksEngineeringEnvironmental Science: 1.51× its world share, 11 worksEnvironmental ScienceMathematics: 5.22× its world share, 9 worksMathematicsPhysics and Astronomy: 0.11× its world share, 0 worksPhysics and AstronomyHealth Professions: 3.01× its world share, 11 worksHealth ProfessionsMedicine: 0.98× its world share, 27 worksMedicineNursing: 0.16× its world share, 0 worksNursingArts and Humanities: 0.12× its world share, 0 worksArts and HumanitiesBusiness, Management and Accounting: 0.92× its world share, 4 worksBusiness, Management…Decision Sciences: 10.70× its world share, 15 worksDecision SciencesEconomics, Econometrics and Finance: 3.12× its world share, 9 worksEconomics, Econometr…Psychology: 1.79× its world share, 8 worksPsychologySocial Sciences: 1.61× its world share, 29 worksSocial Sciences1×world share
more than its size predictsabout as predictedless

Rings at 0.5×, 1× and 2×. Widest outward: Decision Sciences, 10.7×. Every wedge is a field page.

All 22 fields, with their numbers
  1. Decision Sciences10.70×15 works
  2. Mathematics5.22×9 works
  3. Economics, Econometrics and Finance3.12×9 works
  4. Health Professions3.01×11 works
  5. Psychology1.79×8 works
  6. Social Sciences1.61×29 works
  7. Environmental Science1.51×11 works
  8. Computer Science1.13×12 works
  9. Medicine0.98×27 works
  10. Business, Management and Accounting0.92×4 works
  11. Immunology and Microbiology0.41×1 works
  12. Earth and Planetary Sciences0.30×1 works
  13. Agricultural and Biological Sciences0.28×2 works
  14. Nursing0.16×0 works
  15. Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology0.15×1 works
  16. Chemistry0.15×0 works
  17. Energy0.15×0 works
  18. Arts and Humanities0.12×0 works
  19. Pharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics0.11×0 works
  20. Physics and Astronomy0.11×0 works
  21. Engineering0.06×1 works
  22. Neuroscience0.01×0 works

Who are the top researchers at Office for National Statistics?

Ranked on the quality score, Daniel Ayoubkhani, Vahé Nafilyan and Ruth Studley lead among researchers whose main affiliation is Office for National Statistics.

  1. 1 Daniel Ayoubkhani United Kingdom · #35,542 worldwide 5.2k citations · 99 works
  2. 2 Vahé Nafilyan United Kingdom · #40,984 worldwide 4.7k citations · 156 works
  3. 3 Ruth Studley United Kingdom · #124,098 worldwide 3.2k citations · 52 works
  4. 4 Myer Glickman United Kingdom · #202,785 worldwide 3.3k citations · 79 works
  5. 5 Nicola Singleton United Kingdom · #210,930 worldwide 8.9k citations · 98 works
  6. 6 Emma Rourke United Kingdom · #273,687 worldwide 3k citations · 61 works
  7. 7 Isobel L. Ward United Kingdom · #399,899 worldwide 443 citations · 53 works
  8. 8 Ted Dolby United Kingdom · #466,732 worldwide 378 citations · 18 works
  9. 9 Jasper Morgan United Kingdom · #491,255 worldwide 428 citations · 21 works
  10. 10 Kath A Moser United Kingdom · #509,025 worldwide 3.5k citations · 66 works
All ranked researchers at Office for National Statistics

What are the most cited papers from Office for National Statistics?

The most cited paper from Office for National Statistics is "The strengths and difficulties questionnaire: A pilot study on the validity of the self-report version" (Robert Goodman, Howard Meltzer, Victoria Bailey, 1998), with 2,263 citations. Next come "Death toll exceeded 70,000 in Europe during the summer of 2003" (2,167) and "Using the Strengths and Difficulties Questionnaire (SDQ) to screen for child psychiatric disorders in a community sample" (1,850).

Most cited papers
#PaperReleasedCitations
1 The strengths and difficulties questionnaire: A pilot study on the validity of the self-report version Robert Goodman, Howard Meltzer, Victoria Bailey · European Child & Adolescent Psychiatry 12 Oct 1998 2,263
2 Death toll exceeded 70,000 in Europe during the summer of 2003 Jean‐Marie Robine, Siu Lan Karen Cheung, Sophie Roy et al. · Comptes Rendus Biologies Open access 31 Dec 2007 2,167
3 Using the Strengths and Difficulties Questionnaire (SDQ) to screen for child psychiatric disorders in a community sample Robert Goodman, Tamsin Jane Ford, Helen Simmons et al. · The British Journal of Psychiatry Open access Dec 2000 1,850
4 The Development and Well‐Being Assessment: Description and Initial Validation of an Integrated Assessment of Child and Adolescent Psychopathology Robert Goodman, Tamsin Jane Ford, Hilary Richards et al. · Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry Jul 2000 1,730
5 Stigmatisation of people with mental illnesses Arthur H. Crisp, Michael Gelder, Susannah Rix et al. · The British Journal of Psychiatry Open access Jul 2000 1,478
All 57 most cited papers, with filters and sorting

Which keywords describe research at Office for National Statistics?

By fractional works in 2022-now, weighted toward what it does more of than the world: Public Health, Health Disparities, Health Equity, Climate Change, Social Support, Neighborhood Effects, Mortality Risk and Social Relationships.

▲ more of its work than of the world's◆ about the world's share▼ less than the world's

Size is fractional works in 2022-now in the topics tagged with each word; colour is the word's share of this institution's work against its share of the world's. The 40 words are chosen for being large and distinctive. Each links to the topic it comes from most.

All 40 words, with their numbers
  1. Public Health20▲ 9.8×21 topics
  2. Climate Change15▲ 3.9×17 topics
  3. Health Disparities14▲ 37×9 topics
  4. Epidemiology12▲ 2.2×33 topics
  5. Health Equity12▲ 28×4 topics
  6. Social Support11▲ 14×4 topics
  7. Neighborhood Effects10▲ 69×2 topics
  8. Mortality Risk10▲ 30×3 topics
  9. Social Relationships10▲ 77×1 topic
  10. Socioeconomic Inequalities10▲ 108×1 topic
  11. Data Integration9▲ 37×4 topics
  12. Pandemic9▲ 6.3×7 topics
  13. COVID-198▲ 4.5×11 topics
  14. Mortality8▲ 10×7 topics
  15. Big Data8▲ 5.8×7 topics
  16. Health Inequalities7▲ 43×3 topics
  17. Mental Health7▲ 3.6×16 topics
  18. Infectious Diseases7▲ 15×4 topics
  19. Small Area Estimation7▲ 606×1 topic
  20. Spatial Microsimulation7▲ 606×1 topic
  21. Data Cleaning6▲ 157×1 topic
  22. Record Linkage6▲ 157×1 topic
  23. Global Warming6▲ 10×5 topics
  24. Capture-Recapture6▲ 1298×1 topic
  25. Population Size Estimation6▲ 1298×1 topic
  26. Economic Growth5▲ 4.5×8 topics
  27. Life Expectancy5▲ 68×2 topics
  28. SARS-CoV-25▲ 12×5 topics
  29. Vulnerability5▲ 14×2 topics
  30. Heat Waves4▲ 50×1 topic
  31. Human Health4▲ 20×1 topic
  32. Primary Care4▲ 8.5×10 topics
  33. ACE2 Receptor4▲ 13×2 topics
  34. Health Outcomes4▲ 10.0×5 topics
  35. Monetary Policy4▲ 11×5 topics
  36. Chronic Disease3▲ 14×4 topics
  37. Mortality Forecasting3▲ 133×1 topic
  38. Population Ageing3▲ 133×1 topic
  39. Financial Crisis3▲ 19×2 topics
  40. Risk Perception3▲ 8.0×2 topics

Which research topics does Office for National Statistics publish most on?

By volume in 2022-now: Health disparities and outcomes, demographic modeling and climate adaptation, Data Quality and Management and Census and Population Estimation.

Health disparities and o…10Health disparities and outcomes: 10 fractional worksdemographic modeling and climate adaptation: 7 fractional worksData Quality and Management: 6 fractional worksCensus and Population Estimation: 6 fractional worksClimate Change and Health Impacts: 4 fractional worksInsurance, Mortality, De…3Insurance, Mortality, Demography, Risk Management: 3 fractional worksCOVID-19 epidemiological studies: 2 fractional worksSARS-CoV-2 and COVID-19 Research: 2 fractional worksMigration, Health and Trauma: 2 fractional worksCOVID-19 Clinical Research Studies: 2 fractional works
HealthManagement Science and Operations ResearchStatistics and ProbabilityHealth, Toxicology and Mutagenesis4 others

Area is fractional works; colour is the subfield each topic belongs to.

  1. 1 Health disparities and outcomes Health 10 works
  2. 2 demographic modeling and climate adaptation Management Science and Operations Research 7 works
  3. 3 Data Quality and Management Management Science and Operations Research 6 works
  4. 4 Census and Population Estimation Statistics and Probability 6 works
  5. 5 Climate Change and Health Impacts Health, Toxicology and Mutagenesis 4 works
  6. 6 Insurance, Mortality, Demography, Risk Management Demography 3 works
  7. 7 COVID-19 epidemiological studies Modeling and Simulation 2 works
  8. 8 SARS-CoV-2 and COVID-19 Research Infectious Diseases 2 works
  9. 9 Migration, Health and Trauma Clinical Psychology 2 works
  10. 10 COVID-19 Clinical Research Studies Infectious Diseases 2 works

How open and international is its research?

Against the world's own shares: the tick on each track. Both are shares of its output, so they sit on one scale and can be read against each other as well as against the world.

openly available67.4%not open32.6%

World: 40% of research is openly available.

with international co-authors8.4%domestic only91.6%

World: 18% is written across borders.

How has Office for National Statistics's research output changed?

Output in 2022-2025 was 75% higher than in 2018-2021.

still counting1990200020102020
grewheldshrank

The same series as a ribbon: one cell per year, darker for more. The line above answers how much; this answers when.

Its share of all research

Growing output can still be a shrinking share: all of science grows. This is Office for National Statistics as a percentage of every work published that year, 0.00054% in 2024.

still counting0.0020%0.0040%0.0060%Office for National Statistics0.00051% in 202519801990200020102020

Fractional works of Office for National Statistics over all fractional works that year. How the balance of science has shifted.

How much of it reaches the world top 10%

Year by year, against all institutions in the same year.

still counting10%20%30%all institutions10.0% in 2025Office for National Statistics5.4% in 202520102020

Of each year's output, the share that reached the world's 10% most cited for its field and year. Peak 26.2% in 2003.

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